Caribou Herds of Northwest Alaska, 1850–2000 - Softcover

Buch Jr., Ernest

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1602231796 ISBN 13: 9781602231795

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 2012

Synopsis

In his final major publication Ernest S. "Tiger" Burch, Jr. reconstructs the distribution of caribou herds in northwest Alaska using data and information from research conducted over the past several decades as well as sources that predate Western science by more than one hundred years. Additionally, he explores human and natural factors that contributed to the demise and recovery of caribou and reindeer populations during this time. Burch provides an exhaustive list of published and unpublished literature and interviews that will intrigue laymen and experts alike. The unflinching assessment of the roles that humans and wolves played in the dynamics of caribou and reindeer herds will undoubtedly strike a nerve. Supplemental essays before and after the unfinished work add context about the author, the book, and the importance of both.

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Review:

"This work is a reminder of how much Burch's voice--the social anthropologist versed in the biological sciences, with an ethnohistorian's appreciation of oral evidence--will be missed."--Shepard Krech III, Brown University

The book makes a significant contribution to Alaskan history, the social sciences, and human and wildlife ecology. . . . One is impressed with the tenacity, courage, and imagination it must have taken to write this book. --Greg Finstad "Arctic ""

This work is a reminder of how much Burch's voice the social anthropologist versed in the biological sciences, with an ethnohistorian s appreciation of oral evidence will be missed. --Shepard Krech III, Brown University"

"The book makes a significant contribu-tion to Alaskan history, the social sciences, and human and wildlife ecology. . . . One is impressed with the tenacity, courage, and imagination it must have taken to write this book."--Greg Finstad "Arctic "

About the Author:

Ernest S. Burch, Jr. (1938-2010) was a social anthropologist specializing in the early historical social organization of Eskimo peoples. He was an advisor to the US Arctic Research Commission and a member of the National Academy of Sciences' National Research Council. Igor Krupnik is the curator of Arctic and northern ethnology in the Department of Anthropology at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. Jim Dau is a caribou research and management biologist for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1602231796
• ISBN 13: 9781602231795
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 216